Opportunities

Summer School at PSLC in intelligent Course Design

Call for Applications:

5th Annual PSLC LearnLab Summer School to be held at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Application Process Open

When:Monday, July 13, 2008 – Friday, July 17, 2008
Where: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Cost: $950 General Fee / $250 for Graduate Students. Many scholarships available (see application).
Apply: http://www.learnlab.org/opportunities/summer/application.php

An intensive, five-day course focused on creating technology-enhanced courses, lessons, and learning experiments and on tools to support the design, implementation, running, and analysis of such experiments.
The course will provide both conceptual background knowledge on advanced technology for learning and hands-on experience with state-of-the-art development tools.
Learning environment development tools span a range of options from computer-aided instruction and multimedia techniques to intelligent tutoring systems.
Application deadline: Midnight April 2, 2009, Notification of acceptance April 9, 2009.

Summer School Content

We invite applications for participation in an intensive 1-week summer school on technology-enhanced learning experiments and building intelligent tutoring systems. The summer school will provide a conceptual background and considerable hands-on experience in developing, running and analyzing technology-enhanced learning experiments.

Format

The summer school will last five days. Each day will include lectures, discussion sessions, and laboratory sessions where the participants will work on developing a small prototype experiment in an area of math, science, or language learning. The participants will use state-of-the-art tools including the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools and other tools for course development, environments for Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, natural language dialog, semi-automated coding of verbal data, and DataShop for storage of student interaction data analysis of student knowledge and performance.

On the last day, student teams will present their accomplishments to the rest of the participants, followed by a “graduation” party. Participants will be expected to do some preparation before the summer school starts.

Background Reading

For those who would like to get more information prior to submitting an application, papers available provide background about the topics, technology, and tools that will be discussed during the summer school.

Course Instructors

The primary course instructors will include:

Dr. Kenneth R. Koedinger
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Vincent Aleven
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Carolyn Penstein Rosé
Language Technologies Institute
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Robert Hausmann
Learning Research and Development Center
University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Phil Pavlik
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Tim Nokes
Learning Research and Development Center
University of Pittsburgh

Dr. Ryan Baker
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University

Other instructors may include:

Dr. Geoff Gordon
Machine Learning
Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. David Klahr
Professor of Psychology
Carnegie Mellon University

All instructors have considerable experience in research and development in technology-based learning experiments, computer-supported collaborative learning, intelligent tutoring systems and tutorial dialogue systems. Members of the team have taught summer schools for the past four years. All have taught similar material as semester-long courses.

Required Background

The course is intended for anyone with the appropriate computational background and educational zeal to actually build an intelligent tutoring system. This could include seasoned edutech researchers, advanced graduate students, computationally sophisticated teachers and commercial or military instructional developers.

Applications

Please visit our online application page

Important Dates

The deadline for applications is April 2, 2009.
Admission decisions will be made by April 9, 2009.

Costs

The fee for attending the summer school is $950.00. The fee for Graduate Students is $250.00; proof of current enrollment is required for this rate. A substantial number of scholarships are available. See the application for information about how to request a scholarship. The fee includes a continental breakfast and lunch, but not lodging or travel. Please make checks payable to Carnegie Mellon University.

Participants will be responsible for paying for their own travel, additional meals and lodging. Dorm rooms at the Carnegie Mellon University campus are available for a low rate (typically under $60/night for a single room). Rooms may be shared further reducing this cost.

Academic credit is not available, although participants will receive a certificate verifying their participation.

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The is material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant number SBE-0541953. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.